My Christmas Dream

Let me start by saying I have low standards when it comes to holiday films, as they all follow the same template while the actors are interchangeable. Also, I have a huge girl crush on Danica McKellar and have since I was a kid. I didn't think she could ever do wrong. Now I know even bias can't save My Christmas Dream.

McKellar's Cooper was downright unlikable, and unlike every other holiday movie where the character slowly evolves, she never quite got there. Haydn-Jones did a fine job looking pretty, but his role didn't exactly call for much other than being a father and love interest. The kid started out fairly whiny and annoying but eventually saved this film for me. So very cute! Not much chemistry there, but I really blame the lacking script. Their entire journey from introduction to reunion felt scattered and incomplete. It was almost as if they were only attracted to each other because they had to be...because it's Christmas and that's what good-looking people do. I don't really recommend this movie unless you have watched every other Christmas movie Hallmark airs.

Yes, it's a little by the book in terms of the Hallmark formula, but I really liked this film, and it's always great to see Danica Mckellar.

With a nice storyline and some sweet moments, this was enjoyable and romantic enough to pass a cold night.

Lovely.

Danica McKellar stars as the manager of a large department store trying to come up with the 25th annual Christmas display just twelve days before Christmas. She's also in the running to manage the new store in Paris, her dream city. She tasks a painter and local artist to help with the display and begins falling for him and his young son. Cute movie but with a theme that's been done one too many times.

Danica McKellar, a go-getter store manager for a big store needs the help of a single father handyman (David Haydn-Jones) who is currently struggling to make ends meet in order to help her realise a dream - a Christmas Dream, you might say - of managing the store's first international location.

Much better than Christmas at Grand Valley for Danica McKellar, though that isn't saying a whole lot.

Danica is a good actress and she has good chemistry with Haydn-Jones, who I previously enjoyed in 'A Cookie Cutter Christmas' with Erin Krakow. Danica and David work together. The script was pretty good, and although the Hallmark formula is followed to the T here, My Christmas Dream is still a good one.

Danica McKeller is one of our favorite actresses in these movies, based on first seeing her in the delighful and interesting Crown for Christmas.

Sadly, may of her other vehicles had not been so compelling. In this movie, her character is already the manager of a major department store, and her big ambition is to become the manager of a major department store in a different city, even if that city is Paris.

Then she's neglected her job of preparing for one the store's biggest events of the year, and has to get an unemployed and reluctant artist to save her bacon at the last minute. Just not that believable.

We've watched this three times over the years, but tonight was the last time.